In class last Thursday, we discussed Derrida’s article, ‘Differance’. Like many other people, I was pretty stumped when I tried to read it on my own. Professor Casey explained how there is a ‘gap which our mind fills in’ due to previous signals we have received. Once a person has seen something, there will always be a trace of it. By having experiences, we create our own reality with our own personal perceptions of what the real is.
The most interesting part of his lecture was when he was discussing a word’s context. Can there be a word that does not have any existing context surrounding it? Is it led or lead? Is it bass or bass (fish)? But if there was no context, then how could we make sense of anything with language?
I am still confused on the concept of Alterity. I know it’s definition means to put yourself as the other when communicating but does this mean putting myself as the other so that I can understand the person better?
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